Porous electrodes for lead acid storage batteries without supporting plates or grids. The electrodes are porous, self-supporting, structurally integral and electrically continuous. Lead-acid batteries incorporating such electrodes exhibit improved performance characteristics as compared to conventional lead-acid batteries. The electrodes are made by forming a molten mixture of metal (e.g. lead) an...

A means and method are disclosed for applying a stabilizer ply (12) to a tire building drum (17) and more particularly a means and method for cutting and applying the stabilizer ply material, including means for cutting (46) the stabilizer ply material between cords disposed therein and correcting (42) for variations of the cord angles during the application process in order to provide an improved...

PURPOSE:To increase the initial performance as well as the life performance of a lead acid battery, by constituting an assembled element using positive plates containing a graphite of a large anisotropy, and pressing the assembled element at a given pressure. CONSTITUTION:A positive plate is made of a paste containing a graphite of a high anisotropy, which is prepared by subjecting natural graphit...

PURPOSE:To surely prevent an internal combustion engine from its overspeed, by providing a reduction gear means between the internal combustion engine and a transmitted member of driving wheel or the like and reducing a rotary speed, transmitted to the internal combustion engine from the transmitted member, with respect to the rotary speed transmitted to the transmitted member from the internal co...

PURPOSE:To permit an accelerator to adequately attain its setting corresponding to a car speed for its change when work is performed, by providing a speed change lever and an accelerator lever to be juxtaposed placing their control directions to agree while an engaging mechanism, which integrally actuates each lever, to be added. CONSTITUTION:A work truck provides a car speed-adjusting speed chang...

PURPOSE:To enable drivability to be displayed corresponding to the driver's fondness, by enabling at least one of the step change rate and the asymptotic coefficient or the like to perform a speed change control in accordance with a manually settable transient time target value in a transient period in which a throttle control amount rapidly changes. CONSTITUTION:A continuously variable transmissi...

PURPOSE:To miniaturize the device by providing a carrier of a differential mechanism integrally on the first shaft for connecting a pair of supporting plates for an external gear wheel on both sides each other with supporting pillars to support the same to an internal gear wheel on bearing for bearing the differential mechanism only with a pair of bearings to a casing. CONSTITUTION:A carrier 30 of...

PURPOSE:To simplify a vehicle operation by detecting an operation of a shift/ lever and cutting liquid pressure one one side of hydraulic clutch and supplying and maintainning a half clutch pressure on the other side thereof and increasing the half clutch liquid pressure toward the connecting the half clutch liquid pressure toward the connecting direction in case of a vehicle speed reaching zero. ...

PURPOSE:To aim at the compatibility of optimizing the prefill effect at a low speed stage and the speed change control at a down shift by switching a drain oil passage over to a lubrication pressure oil passage or to the drain side depending on the change gear ratio using a prefill switchover valve provided on a drain oil passage of a change gear ratio controlling valve. CONSTITUTION:When the line...

PURPOSE:To make it possible to perform highly accurate measurement of the body color and the transmitted color of a fluorescent sample, by forming arbitrary spectral energy distribution based on the amount of the light, which has passed through each slit arranged at equal wavelength interval, and introducing the distribution into the sample. CONSTITUTION:Output light from a lamp 1 is condensed int...

A continuously operating screw ejection centrifugal separator. The drum and the screw are driven by an epicyclic gear train. Changes in torque between the screw and the drum of the centrifuge are measured and the differential speed of the screw and drum is controlled so as to obtain substantially steady state operation of the separator. For the control, a second epicyclic gear train is associated ...

According to the method of the invention for removing at least one layer of reinforcing elements (4), such as steel cords, etc. from a breaker or belt (6) located between the tread area (3) and the carcass (5) of a rubber tyre; the tread area of the tyre is first removed down to the layer of reinforcing elements by rasping off this tread area, and afterwards each reinforcing element (4), for examp...

PURPOSE:To diagnose a fault of each device in a computer system by detecting the current flowing into the output buffer of an I/O control circuit and comparing the detected value with a set value. CONSTITUTION:The open collector type output buffer 401 is connected to a bus 1 through a current detecting resistor 410. The voltage applied on both the ends of the current detecting resistor 410 is ampl...

PURPOSE:To enhance the grinding and emulsifying efficiency of the tissue of the affected part, by providing a controller consisting of a detection part for detecting suction pressure changing at a definite cycle and a high frequency power supply control part performing control so as to output ultrasonic mechanical vibration generating voltage on the basis of the detection result at each time when ...

A snap hinge closure connects two parts, such as, for example, a lower and an upper part of a closure. Both parts have casing walls which, in the closed position of the hinge, match vertically above one another. On both sides of the film hinge, tension bands are positioned, which, in the closed position, are tensed. The tension bands are held, with their ends, in recesses (11) in the casing walls,...

The use, in an otherwise conventional polyolefin extrusion foaming process, of a stability control agent (e.g., stearamide, EAA copolymer, etc.) in conjunction with certain mixed blowing agent systems (e.g., 5-50 weight percent trichloromonofluoromethane and 50-95 weight percent dichlorodifluoromethane) provides closed-cell olefin polymer foam articles having increased maximum achievable cross-sec...

A closed cell phenolic foam having a cell structure in which the cell walls are substantially free of both ruptures and perforations is made by foaming and curing a foamable phenolic resole composition containing an aqueous phenol formaldehyde resole, a surfactant, a blowing agent and optionally other additives, with an acid foaming and curing agent which is an anhydrous aryl sulfonic acid which h...

An aqueous phenol formaldehyde resole, suitable for use in the manufacture of phenolic foam insulation, has a molar ratio of formaldehyde to phenol in the range of from about 1.7:1 to about 2.3:1, and a weight average molecular weight greater than 800. Preferably, the resole also has a number average molecular weight greater than 350 and a dispersivity greater than about 1.7. Phenol formaldehyde r...

The epoxy resin mixture, which contains (a) an epoxy resin or a mixture of epoxy resins having an average epoxide content of from 4.4 to 5.0 equivalents/kg and an average epoxide functionality of greater than 2.0, (b) a novolak having a hydroxyl equivalent weight of from 90 to 120, from 0.8 to 0.95 hydroxyl equivalents of component (b) being present in the epoxy resin mixture per epoxide equivalen...